On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Kurtis <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to build a custom template for my ModelForm. My ModelForm
> contains several M2M fields. If I run the ModelForm.as_view and then
> in my template print {{ form.as_p }} it'll automagically display those
> choices.
>
> Now what I want to do is take advantage of that magic and print out
> those choices myself in my template. For example:
>
> {% for choice in form.genres.choices %}
> {{ choice }}
> {% endfor %}
>
> ... but it doesn't work. it doesn't print anything. I tried reading
> through the source code of the forms.py and fields.py from 1.3 but
> didn't get very far.
>
When you access a form field from a template, the field returned is a
BoundField, not the field attribute from the form class. From the
BoundField object, you can access the form field on the field
attribute, eg:
{% for choice in form.genres.field.choices %}
{{ choice }}
{% endfor %}
Cheers
Tom
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